A Map for the Missing

Author:	Tang, Belinda Huijuan
Binding:	Paperback
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ISBN:	9780593300688
Publisher:	Penguin Books
Language:	English
Page Count:	392
Publication Date:	8/8/2023
Size:	8.00" l x 5.25" w x 1.00"
Series:	N/A

Category	Subject
Fiction	Family Life
Fiction	Cultural Heritage

Tang Yitian has been living in America, estranged from his family, for almost a decade when he receives an urgent phone call from his mother: his father has disappeared from the family’s rural village in China. When Yitian returns home and attempts to piece together what may have happened, he struggles to navigate the country’s impenetrable bureaucracy as an outsider. So he seeks out a childhood friend: Tian Hanwen, who as a teenager was “sent down” from Shanghai to Yitian’s village as part of China’s rustication campaign. Young and in love, they dreamed of attending university together. But after a terrible tragedy, their paths diverged, and while Yitian ended up a professor in America, Hanwen was left behind.

Reuniting for the first time as adults, Yitian and Hanwen embark on a search for Yitian’s father, all the while grappling with the past and what might have been. Spanning the late 1970s to 1990s and moving effortlessly between rural provinces and big cities, A Map for the Missing is a deeply felt examination of family and forgiveness, and the meaning of home.